right-of-publicity
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A285 | Jaime Rogozinski v. Reddit, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Presumed Complete | online-community platform-liability right-of-publicity section-230 trademark-ownership user-agreement | Whether a platform moderator can claim trademark ownership of an online community's name when the platform itself created and hosted the underlying fo… | |
| 23A46 | Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. | California | 2023-07-18 | Presumed Complete | anti-SLAPP commercial-speech first-amendment lanham-act right-of-publicity trademark-infringement | Whether the First Amendment protects the use of a person's likeness in a commercial film from liability under the Lanham Act and state right of public… | |
| 20-1123 | Lenwood Hamilton v. Lester Speight, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech likeness-rights privacy privacy-rights property-rights right-of-publicity transformative-use video-game-law | Whether the First Amendment right to free speech protects using a person's actual likeness without permission when weighed against that person's prope… |
| 18-453 | Olivia de Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC, et al. | California | 2018-10-11 | Denied | artistic-license civil-rights defamation docudrama false-statements first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage public-figure right-of-publicity | Are reckless or knowing false statements about a living public figure, published in docudrama format, entitled to absolute First Amendment protection … |